Single Record
Participant Info
- Species
- Descurainia kenheilii
- Family
- Brassicaceae
- CommonName
- Heil’s tansymustard
- Presence
- YES
- Status
- native
- EarliestDate
- 1996
- LatestDate
- 2021
- Ecosystem
- tundra
- Geobotanical
- SSanjuans
- Counties
- Conejos, Mineral, Rio Grande, San Juan
- Passes
- Elwood, Stony, Wolf Creek
- WildlifePreserves
- Other Localities
- Comments
- The Watershed owns the type location for Descurainia kenheilii: San Juan Co, top of Stony Pass. The species was discovered for science by Ihnan Al-Shehbaz in 2007. It took several years but collectors such as Scott F. Smith and Jennifer Ackerfield added field locations. Also a number of herbarium vouchers from the Watershed were re-named: from around Elwood pass in Rio Grande Co; between Elwood pass and Bonito pass on the Continental Divide trail; NE of Fels Plateau in Conejos Co; and along the Continental Divide 0.75 miles from Lobo Overlook at Wolf Creek pass in Mineral Co. The earlier identifications of these vouchers were either D. incana or D. californica. Descurainia kenheilii has also been recorded from the San Juan River drainage in Colorado. So far it is endemic to the state.
- Annotation